In 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis imposed his far-right political agenda on the state's public school classrooms in various ways, among them being a new civics training initiative that was infused with Christian nationalist propaganda.
Shortly thereafter, Trump-loving, anti-Islam religious-right activist Laurie Cardoza-Moore bragged that she had been instrumental in shaping Florida's new civics education standards and thereby ensuring that public school students in the state are taught that this nation "was founded on the Torah."
Cardoza-Moore, founder of the Christian Zionist group Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, recently appeared on the "Focus Today" program, where she announced that she hopes to push this Christian nationalist agenda into schools across the country once Donald Trump returns to the White House.
"I have reached out to Linda McMahon requesting a meeting with her about education reform," Cardoza-Moore said. "The Trump administration needs to implement the policy that Gov. DeSantis implemented in the state of Florida."
"We were involved in drafting the gold standard of curriculum for history, civics, world history, Middle East history, social studies," she continued. "And with that, Florida became the first state in the country to teach the role the Hebrew Bible played in the founding, the role that it played in the formation of our form of government—the republic actually comes out of Torah. So, we're trying to get President Trump to initiate those same procedures [and] call for an emergency review of civics and social study standards across the United States."
The United States' republican form government was in no way based on the Torah or the Bible, as Right Wing Watch explained the last time Cardoza-Moore made this statement:
Cardoza-Moore's emphasis on "the Hebrew Bible" and "the Torah" is a reflection of her Christian Zionism, an evangelical belief that Christian must support and defend the state of Israel as its existence is necessary for the return of Jesus Christ. Her comments are simply another way of stating the false Christian nationalist claim that the United States was founded on the Bible—a claim meant to justify their efforts to dismantle the separation of church and state.
